Marvel Kalu

The SDG is the blueprint in achieving a better and more sustainable future. The initiative addresses global challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. “The initiative addresses global challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.” Universities from...

Proposed budget cuts by the Kenyan government in September 2018 includes slashing the university education budget by approximately US$23 million. This move reflects a wider issue affecting numerous African countries struggling to finance higher education as it has globally been perceived as a private rather than a public good...

Unstable political shifts in the UK paired with budgetary strain have led some institutions like Cardiff University to warn their staff of the potential for redundancies in early 2019. Up and down the UK, higher education providers are reporting their finances for the 2017-18 year and ‘several’ have found...

The #MeToo movement that went viral via Twitter last year gives a clear insight into the number of people that are affected by sexual harassment. The movement has given thousands of men and women a voice on the issue, with many people coming forward with things that happened to...

The contemporary system of universities is outdated according to three professors Sperlinger, McLellan, and Pettigrew, who suggest that the system was built in a different time and society, therefore is no longer fit for purpose. “only 3.4% of UK and Island Undergraduate students were part-time” One focus of the...

The Hidden Course Cost campaign started this Monday the 19th November with a week of focus groups, a totaliser on the SU website and a competition to win an NCT bus pass, print credits, and Amazon vouchers. “little to no financial support for expenses incurred from placement” The campaign...

Whilst we have people in our University community who voted leave as well as remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum, the vote was an individual decision. At UoN we value our EU staff and want them to stay with us at the University of Nottingham. Over 800 University staff...